Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread David L. Craig
On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 4:49 PM wrote: > > "David L. Craig" wrote: > > > FWIW, I put together "The Virtual Plan 9 Cookbook" > > (http://dlcusa.net/vp9cb-9pio) > > years ago to address this newbie need. But there was no way to point it > >

Re: [9fans] Where can I find active Plan 9 communities for support and collaboration?

2024-08-04 Thread David L. Craig
On 24Aug04:1319+0200, sirjofri wrote: > > I remember that I invested a full year reading documentation etc (everything > I could find), without really touching the system. It can take a long time to > understand enough to +install and maintain a full plan 9 system. Unlike linux, you probably need

Re: [9fans] Is the vanilla Plan 9 still alive?

2019-11-24 Thread David L. Craig
On 19Nov24:0830-0800, o...@eigenstate.org wrote: > >> The most official looking site for vanilla plan9 is 9p.io. It > >> doesn't show any sign of activity since 2015. > > > > Please look more closely: > > > > cpu% srv -n 9p.io sources /n/sources > > Usually, that's not what people mean when th

Re: [9fans] Debian bug 737206 - rc shell uses insecurely /tmp

2014-12-05 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Dec04:2238-0500, s...@9front.org wrote: > Aren't they talking about rc when running on their operating system? Certainly. It serves as a textbook example of inadequate software porting due to insufficient understanding of the differences between the source and target environments. Once the

[9fans] Virtual Plan 9 Cookbook Early Beta Available

2014-09-24 Thread David L. Craig
Sigh. I had hoped to have the official beta out by now. But systemd and my project computer are not getting along well and I have reached that point in the calendar when I'll not be able to do much for a couple weeks. So I guess I must "release early and often" at this juncture. I still need to

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread David L. Craig
I just updated the web pages and tarball to include the text of the GPL 2 as file LICENSE and imbedded links to the HTML version in the licensing info in the upper right corners of all five pages. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave_Craig___

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug29:0822-0400, David L. Craig wrote: > On 14Aug29:0059-0400, Scott Elcomb wrote: > > > I found the colours a bit difficult as well so I've mirrored the > > package in black-on-white at > > <http://projects.psema4.com/plan9/vp9cb/>. > > I will add

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-29 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug29:0059-0400, Scott Elcomb wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 9:25 AM, David L. Craig wrote: > > If a lot of people think CSS-challenged newbies > > would have a better experience with a default black-on-white > > presentation, I'll go with that. > > Thank

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
I revised the index.html to remove the second Errata item about the mangled UTF-8 characters, and moved the information about the tarball before the Errata header. The tarball has been updated with that, and I think I'm done for this day. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Da

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:0850-0400, David L. Craig wrote: > On 14Aug28:1101+0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > > Dante wrote: > > > > "cat /dev/devices" (or /dev/device or so). > > > > /dev/drivers > > > > Lucio. > > I just updated

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
I found a great source of UTF-8 expertise that showed me how to resolve the garbled UTF-8 characters: http://htmlpurifier.org/docs/enduser-utf8.html All I had to do was rename the charset=utf-8 file, 04_P9Server.html to 04_P9Server.utf8.html and most webservers configured to say their content

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:1402+0100, Peter Hull wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:55 PM, David L. Craig wrote: > > 2. Would having the headers appear like the links be sufficient? > > Whatever, I'll make this a priority, probably this afternoon. > Yes, I think so. I've updated

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:0907-0400, Joseph Stewart wrote: > I love the work David. Can I ask a naggy thing though... the > background/forground colors make it very hard to read for very long... > could you change them to "boring old" black-on-white? (or should I just > make a local edit with my fuddy-duddy pref

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:1100+0100, Peter Hull wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 8:16 PM, David L. Craig wrote: > > I really hope it is helpful to a lot of people as time > > goes by. > Hi David, > This is going to be a tremendously useful resource! I've not read it > all yet bu

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-28 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug28:1101+0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > Dante wrote: > > "cat /dev/devices" (or /dev/device or so). > > /dev/drivers > > Lucio. > Thanks, guys! These are exactly the kinds of comments this work needs--you will be credited. I've added an Errata heading to index.html but can't not

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug27:2356+0200, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > I think I'll be using this heavily when I embark on the next leg of my > installing of Plan 9. Let me know how that works out for you. I'd be extremely gratified if this gets a lot more people experiencing Plan 9 as opposed to just reading about i

Re: [9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
On 14Aug27:1352-0600, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Hi. This looks wonderful. Is it available in a PDF or more > paper oriented format, for us old fogeys? > > Thanks, > > Arnold Not yet--it's still alpha. Someone will probably do that sooner or later, I'll guess, maybe even me. -- May the LORD

[9fans] Announcing The Virtual Plan 9 Server Cookbook

2014-08-27 Thread David L. Craig
This is the publication I wished I had had several months ago, so I decided to write it. With hundreds of screen shots and a few choice scripts (the main one based on maht's make_cpuauth contribution to Plan 9), it walks a UNIX sysadmin of modest experience through installing Debian Sid onto an x8